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Algirdas Šemeta

Algirdas Šemeta
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European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud
In office
9 February 2010 – 1 November 2014
President José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by László Kovács (Taxation and Customs Union)
Siim Kallas (Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud)
Succeeded by Pierre Moscovici ( Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs)
European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget
In office
1 July 2009 – 9 February 2010
President José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by Dalia Grybauskaitė
Succeeded by Janusz Lewandowski
Personal details
Born (1962-04-23) 23 April 1962 (age 54)
Vilnius, Soviet Union
(now Lithuania)
Political party Homeland Union
Alma mater Vilnius University

Algirdas Gediminas Šemeta (born 23 April 1962) is a Lithuanian economist and politician.

A native of Vilnius, Algirdas Šemeta graduated in 1985 from Vilnius University's Faculty of Economic Cybernetics and Finance with a degree as economist-mathematician. His previous position has been as Lithuania's Finance Minister, which he fulfilled from December 2008 to June 2009, having already served in the post a decade earlier, from February 1997 to June 1999. Šemeta has minimal business experience in the private sector, his career to date has been concentrated in public office as a civil servant.

He was European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud from July 2009 till November 2014. Following his Commission nomination by center-right Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, Šemeta has affiliated himself with the European People's Party (EPP). Since December 2014 Šemeta is Business Ombudsman in Ukraine.



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